This May the VoyageLA staff interviewed textile designer, Anki Spets, about the how AREA got started in 1990 and how it's grown since. Anki provided some great insight into the joys and difficulties of starting a business.
"Being an outsider is sometimes good, I did not second guess the idea to start a textile design company and think my informal Scandinavian views paired with the clear esthetics has worked in my favor."